RMT Basics, page 12

You Can Minimize Tension

RMT causes the focus of a concentrated force of load to be resolved evenly throughout the material of the pencil.

Consequently, the potential for promoting tension through leverage is

suspended

by RMT.

In this way, RMT precludes the concentration of tension and actually minimizes the creation of tension in a structure.

Thus, you cannot break an RMT pencil by bending or stretching.

You can only crush it.

The material will fail only at

MAXIMUM STRENGTH.

This is true for all RMT structures, whatever their material composition.

This includes RMT structures made with metals, although frequently the MAXIMUM STRENGTH of a metal is the same as its tensile strength because the compression strength and the tensile strength of the metal are the same.

I will explain later why RMT greatly strengthens a structure made of a metal which has equivalent tensile and compression strengths.